Rubric – The Rule I Live By

Category Exceeds expectations Meets Expectations 85 Almost Meets Expectations 70 Does Not Meet Expectations 55
100
The story contains many creative The story contains some creative details The story contains a few creative details The story contains a few creative
Storytelling/ details and/or descriptions that and/or descriptions that contribute to the and/or descriptions that contribute to the details and/or descriptions. The story
Creativity contribute to the reader's enjoyment. reader’s enjoyment. The author has used reader's enjoyment. The story makes may be confusing and/or
The author has really used his her imagination. sense. incomplete/ends abruptly.
imagination.
The story has an original and unique The story has an identifiable rule that The story has a concluding paragraph The story has a concluding paragraph;
Theme/ rule . It is clear how the event touches on how the event changed/ and the author attempts to connect it to however, the author does not offer an
Conclusion changed/influenced the author. influenced the author. the rule; however it is lacking in some explanation of how the event
Thoughtful and interesting conclusion. way. changed/ influenced the author
The story is very well organized. One The story is pretty well organized. One The story is a little hard to follow. The The story is difficult to follow and/or
Organization idea or scene follows another in a idea or scene may seem out of place. Clear transitions are sometimes not clear. no paragraphs/transitions are used.
logical sequence with clear transitions. transitions are used. The paper is divided
The paper is divided into paragraphs into paragraphs.
There is an appropriate amount of There is an appropriate amount of dialogue There is too much or not enough Dialogue is used in the story.
dialogue to bring the characters to life in the story, and it is always clear which dialogue in this story, but it is always However there are serious errors in
Dialogue and it is always clear which character character is speaking. New paragraphs are clear which character is speaking. New punctuation/usage which make it
is speaking. New paragraphs are started each time a new character begins to paragraphs are started each time a new difficult for the reader to follow.
started each time a new character speak, but there may be some errors in character begins to speak, but there may
begins to speak and there are no errors punctuation. be some errors in punctuation.
in punctuation.
There are no more than two categorical There are three or four categorical errors in There are five or six categorical errors There are seven or eight categorical
Grammar/Usage errors in spelling/punctuation/ spelling/punctuation/ in spelling/punctuation/ errors in spelling/punctuation/
grammar, etc. grammar, etc. Grammar, etc. Grammar, etc.
Meets all technical requirements: Meets all but one technical requirements: Meets all but two technical Meets all but three technical
Technical  Double Spaced  Double Spaced requirements: requirements:
Requirements.  Typed in 12pt font  Typed in 12pt font  Double Spaced  Double Spaced
 MLA header  MLA header  Typed in 12pt font  Typed in 12pt font
 Page Numbers  Page Numbers  MLA header  MLA header
 Title (Centered)  Title (Centered)  Page Numbers  Page Numbers
 500 words 500 words  Title (Centered)  Title (Centered)
500 words 500 words
Shows evidence of all stages of the Shows evidence of all but one stage of the Shows evidence of two stages of the Shows evidence of one stage of the
Writing Process writing process: writing process: writing process: writing process:
 Prewriting Chart  Prewriting Chart  Prewriting Chart  Prewriting Chart
 Rough Draft  Rough Draft  Rough Draft  Rough Draft
 Revision  Revision  Revision  Revision
 Editing  Editing  Editing  Editing